Dictionary entry

Yankee-Doodle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Yan′kee–Doo″dle (?), n. 1. The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States.

2. Humorously, a Yankee.

We might have withheld our political noodles

From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles. Moore.